Nirbhaya Case: MHA sends mercy petition of 2012 Delhi gang-rape case convict’s to President

Nirbhaya case: Home ministry sends convict’s mercy petition to President ahead of the hanging of four convicts next week. Mukesh Kumar filed a mercy petition on Tuesday after the Supreme Court dismissed the curative pleas filed by him and Vinay.

Ministry of Home Affairs sources: MHA had sent the mercy petition of 2012 Delhi gang-rape case convict Mukesh to Rashtrapati Bhavan, last night pic.twitter.com/Fevy7tcWY3

— ANI (@ANI) January 17, 2020

Playing with my daughter’s death for political gains

#WATCH Asha Devi, mother of 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim: Till now, I never talked about politics, but now I want to say that those people who held protests on streets in 2012, today the same people are only playing with my daughter’s death for political gains. pic.twitter.com/FvaC89TwKI

— ANI (@ANI) January 17, 2020

The convicts were sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012.